The White Princess (TV Mini Series)
The Pretender (2017)
Essie Davis: Dowager Queen Elizabeth
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Quotes
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Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Lizzie!
Princess Elizabeth : I'm sorry that I didn't come sooner.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : But you're here now. How's Arthur?
Princess Elizabeth : He is well. I would have brought him but...
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Henry doesn't know you're here?
Princess Elizabeth : No. Look at you Anne! How much you've grown. I swear you're almost as tall as me.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : How did you get in?
Princess Elizabeth : The monks.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : They let you through?
Princess Elizabeth : I am Queen now, I command them. Well, tell me eveything. Are you well? What news from Burgundy? Does my aunt send help to us?
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : I hoped that you would tell me.
Princess Elizabeth : You write to her. Surely you must know?
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : I can get nothing in or out. For the first time in my life, I am bereft of letters and of news. Tell me, please. What of the Tudor court? Your marriage. Would you still push him from the throne?
Princess Elizabeth : You are truly not in touch with anyone?
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Even the boy who used to take my messages for me has gone away.
Princess Elizabeth : Margaret is convinced you are the cause of Henry's troubles. She would have you dead.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : Of course she would.
Princess Elizabeth : No, Mother, this is not an idle threat. This time he means it. He believes you planned for Teddy to be snatched and used against us.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : I know nothing of it.
Princess Elizabeth : If I knew what my aunt had planned, then maybe I could talk him round. If you know anything, please, help me.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : I have no power anymore. I have these four walls and your sisters, and that is all.
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Dowager Queen Elizabeth : "My dearest Lizzie. Yes, I have the means to write and I know how that will hurt you."
Princess Elizabeth : She is writing letters.
Cecily of York : Who is writing letters? Our mother. Of course she is. Lady Margaret said it was her that funded the York army.
Dowager Queen Elizabeth : "But, there's something I must tell you, as painful as it is. When you were first with child, with Arthur, I knew then that he'd never be the king. I do not know where my sight comes from, but I could see it. Curse me if you will. And hold your boy close, but Lizzie, you must change allegiance and back your brother's claim for England. I know he will return to us."
Cecily of York : What does she say?
Princess Elizabeth : She is ill-wishing Arthur. She says he will not be king. She is wishing him to die.
Cecily of York : Don't listen to her, Lizzie. She is only on her own side. Never ours. She will say whichever words best serve her own cause. Whatever they're true or not. Now, we must go and help Maggie with her marriage bed. She has no mother either.